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Healthy Respect: Ethics in Health Care

R. S. Downie, K. C. Calman, Ruth A. K. Schröck, and Malcolm Macnaughton

Print publication date: 1994

Print ISBN-13: 9780192624086

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192624086.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

Chapter:
(p.3) INTRODUCTION
Source:
Healthy Respect
Author(s):

R. S. Downie

K. C. Calman

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192624086.003.0001

This Introduction starts by outlining the issues raised in this book and the purpose of the book. It goes on to summarize the contents of the parts that follow. Part 1, is an essay in moral philosophy or ‘ethics’ in this first sense. Part 2 illustrates the second main sense of ‘ethics’ — ordinary morality as it is found in a professional context.

Keywords:   moral philosophy, ethics, ordinary morality, health care professional

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